Button-attaching machine.



L. E. POOLE.

BUTTON ATTACHING MACHINE. APPLICATION FILED NOV. 26. 1915.

1,215,987. Patented Feb. 13, 1917.

WITNESSES:

INVE/VTUR Lona B. POOLE A BY A I'TORNEYS in ens rrrar ormea.

LORA n. POOLE, or ANnnnsoN, INDIANA, ASSIGNOR 'ro ANDERSON BUTTON ATTAom e- MACHINE COMPANY, or ANDERSON, INDIANA, A oonronATroN.

BUTTON-ATTACHING MAGHIN E.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented m. is, rare.

Application filed November 26, 1915. Serial No. 63,587.

To all whom it may concern:

lie it known that I, Lona E. PooLn, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Anderson, county of Marion, and State of Indiana, have invented acertain new and useful Button-Attaching Machine; and I do hereby declare that the following isa full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which like letters refer to like parts.

' The object of this invention is to provide means on a button attaching machine to attach buttons on shoes by means of a wire staple, whereby the position of the button when attached to the shoe or other article may be accurately determined by the open ator before the button is attached. This derice is especially adapted to be used on but of a wire staple.

ton attaching machines where the button is aliixed on the shoe or other article by means It has heretofore been difiicult to determine in what position to place the article to receive the button exactly where desired. Heretofore it has been neces sary for the operator to determine as nearly as possible by his eye where the button will be attached, and this is usually very difiicult because of the fact that the button itself is quite a distance from the attaching place and the operation is so quick that there is always danger of. the button being mis placed. By means of this invention the point of attaching the button may not only be determined, but it may also be seen just how the button will look in that position on the shoe or other article, thereby doing away with the necessity of gaging by the eye, and

thereby making the operation merely. mechanlcal.

This is accomplished by a buttondike indicating ball which extends upward from the mechanism to the same relative position to the shoe or other article that the button will take, but which will be withdrawn out of the way before the button is attached.

The full nature of the invention will be.

cross-section through the button attaching machine showing the indicating means in position. Fig. 21s thesame as Fig. 1, a part thereof being removed, showing the ind cat-( ing means in lowered position. Fig. 3 is a front elevation showing the indicating means in position.

In the drawings, there is a button attach ing machine having a hollow pedestal 10, a table portion 11, disks 12, a framework 13, a rod 1% pivoted to the disk 12 at 15 which is adapted to be operated by a pedal, not shown. Said disk operates about the point 16 and has projections 17 and 18.

Secured to the framework of said machine there is a hopper 20 adapted to be filled with buttons and having a feeding plate 21 extending through the bottom thereof for pick ing up buttons in the slot 12 for elevating them in position to be fed into the button race 23. On the lower end of said plate there is a plate spring 21 adapted to be engaged by the projection 25 on the disk 12, whereby said feedin date may be mechanically b r u lifted by the mechanism of the machine, said plate being secured to a rod 26 extending through the table 11, said rod having a spring 27 surrounding it above the table and a spring 28 below the table. There is a hood 29 extending over the slot in the feeding plate and a hood 30 over the race 23 to prevent the buttons from bouncing off when being fed onto said race. The buttons are permitted to slide down said race to a button gate 31 which holds the button, as shown in Fig. 1, in readiness to be gripped by a feed finger 32. Said feed finger is pivoted to an arm 38 secured to the mechanism at 33.

Said gate is pivoted at 3 and has two finger members 35, one of which is adapted to engage a pin 36 on said finger so as to clevate it to a position over the button where, by means of the spring 37, not shown, the finger drops down on top of a button as shown in Fig. 2 the pin 36 passing through an opening between the fingers in the upper portion of said gate. The button is then carried downward by said feed finger forcing the gate upward against a spring 37 which returns them into position in time to engage the following button and hold it until the said finger returns. Saidfinger is operated by the pedal acting through the rod 15 on the disk 12 which turns about a quarter of a revolution and operates the arm 38 to which said finger is pivoted.

On the under side of the button race there is a cut-oif ram 39 which is longitudinally slidable in the framework of said machine and having a slot therein in which'a staple driver l0 is adapted'to slide. Theroller pins 17 on said disk are adapted tObQ en-V gaged by two projections on said staple driver so that the movement of the disk will force the staple driver down toward the staple forming anvil 41. The same movement forces the cut-oii' ram toward said an: vil by means of the roller pin 18 on said disk engaging a cam lever -12 pivoted at 18, which in turn engages a spring member 14, which is secured to the under side of said cut-off ram, whereby the cut-off ram and staple driver are yieldingly operated.

Extending upwardly at right angles and in line with the button race there is a stapleforming block 4C5. Said block is in such position that the wire which is fed into the machine for forming the staples will extend past the upper side thereof in a position to be cut and formed into a staple by means of the cut-oil ram passing said block, cutting the wire thereon and forming it into astaple to be driven against the anvil and clenched by thestaple driver. The staple forming blocks extends downwardly into the frame of the machine 13 and has a coil spring to surrounding it under a head on the upper end of said block, adapted to force said block upwardly into its engaging position, where it is held while the cut-otl ram passes it and cuts off the wire, which it forces around said block so as to form a staple. There is a shoulder on said cut-off ram which engages a shoulder on said staple-forming block and forces it downwardly against the spring 46 so as to allow the button, staple and staple driver to ride over it.

On said staple-forming block there is secured an arm 47 which extends outwardly and upwardly from said cut-ofl block and has on the upper end thereof an indicating ball 48. Said indicating means is so ar-. ranged that the indicating ball will be just in front of the anvil, leaving only space enough to insert the article to which the button is to be attached, and rests in the position thereon which will be taken by the button when attached. It is desirous to make the indicating ball appear as a button would when attached, so that it may be seen just how the button will appear in that position, and'so that the operator may easily,

determine where the button should be attached. When the machine is operated, the cut-off ram will engage the shoulder on the staple-forming block, forcing it downwardly out of the way of the staple driver and button, which will at the same time carry the indicating means or ball downwardly with it out of the way of the button so that it may be attached at the same point block adapted to be operatedby said button attaching means, and means removable by said staple forming block for indicating where the button will be attached.

2. A button attaching machine including button attaching means, a staple forming block operated by said button attaching means, an arm secured to said block, and an indicating ball on the end of said arm for indicating where the button will be attached. v

3. A button attaching machine including button attaching means, a'staple forming block adaited to beoperated by said button attachlng means, an arm secured to said block, a staple anvil, and an indicating ball secured on said arm adjacent to said anvil for indicating where the button will be attached.

a. A button attaching machine including a framework, a button race, an operating member, a cut-off ram slidable 'in said frame, a staple driver, means on said operating member for operating said ram, a staple forming block, means on said ram for forc ing said block downwardly, and means operated by said block for indicating where the button will be attached. c

5. A button attaching machine including a framework, a button race, an operating member, a cut-oif ram slidable in said frame, a staple driver, means on said operating member for operating said ram, a staple forming block, means on said ram for forcing said block downwardly, an arm secured to said block, and an indicating means on said arm for showing the position of the button when attached.

7 6. A button attaching machine-including aframework, a button race, an operating member, a cut-oil ram slidable in said frame, a staple driver, means on said operating member for operating said ram, a staple forming block, means on said ram for forcing said block downwardly, an anvil for clenching the staple, and an indicating means secured to said staple forming block in a position relative to said anvil for indicating where the button will be attached by the staple.

In witness whereof, I have hereunto affixed my signature in the presence of thewitnesses herein named.

LORA E. POOLE. i tnesses CnAs. K. BAco'r, DOROTHY OSSENBERG.

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